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Population Ecology and Biogeochemical Cycles — Homework
Review exponential vs. logistic growth and the three biogeochemical cycles before answering.
- 1.Which growth model produces an S-shaped curve?
- 2.Define carrying capacity in your own words.
- 3.Classify as density-dependent or density-independent: a wildfire that kills a fixed percentage of a population regardless of its size.
- 4.Explain why nitrogen-fixing bacteria are essential to the entire living world.
- 5.Describe, in three or four sentences, what a population graph would look like if it grew exponentially, overshot its carrying capacity, and then crashed and stabilized.
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